#stamina

[fitstud]

Well hello there 👋🏻

[ailingwriter]

I realized that the Stamina Bar tends to have the widest range of colors in video games so I figured I'd ask what people thought the true Stamina Bar color was. (Please reblog for a bigger sample size!)

[the-iron-duck93]

I wish I lived somewhere like this

[evilhorse]

I am very quick to recover my stamina. It’s a mutant thing.

(Uncanny Spider-Man #2)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Gerard Way told me not to kill myself and then I had to walk up a very steep hill and couldn’t because I didn’t have enough stamina.

[breelynnxoxoxo]

YOU…..AFTER A NIGHT WITH BREE! 💋💋💋

[siseliestudio]

nom nom nom 🍦🍓

[littlelodell]

Aziraphale meets N*zis thinking he’s working against them, is held at gunpoint and was indeed played for a sucker, gets saved from N*zi spies by Crowley, saves himself and our dear demon during a miraculously rerouted blitz bombing, practically propositions Crowley on the way home, stops by a club first, volunteers to do a magic act, performs it for Crowley back at the bookshop, visits the Whickber Street magic shop to buy the showstopper, finds that cape and does the show, thwarts Furfur, et al, delivers the cuntyest Aziraphale ever and has a quiet, candlelight bottle of wine back at home with The Demon ALL IN THE SAME EVENING?

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Renewed Strength

Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble, But those expecting Jehovah pass [to] power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint! — Isaiah 40:30-31 | Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible (YLT) Young’s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Isaiah 9:17; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:21; Jeremiah 48:15; Luke 18:1; 2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Galatians 6:9; Hebrews 12:3; Revelation 12:14

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #8564

 Working on my stamina until I can jog without feeling oxygen deprived. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

[mr-entj]

Hi Mr. ENTJ. As a guy who's always in meetings solving problems, how do you develop mental stamina to stay "on it" all day? Do you have advice on how to do it even without a passionate interest in the topic or problem you're trying to brainstorm with other people? Thank you for your time!

I do it through a few ways:

I'm extremely protective of my time both in and out of work: I actively cut and reduce as many meetings as possible. Meetings are stamina vampires and motivation killers, they're only used for discussions that require rapid back and forth exchanges of ideas or debates when teams can't agree on something and need to drive alignment. All other communications like status updates, one-off questions, newsletters, data readouts, etc. should be through Slack or e-mails.

I don't attend meetings where:

I have no perspective/opinion/expertise to share with the group to solve a problem.

The outcome of the decision has no impact on me, my team, my product.

I can find the same information somewhere else (an internal document, email, message, etc.).

The fewer meetings, the more mental stamina saved.

2. I write more than I talk. I'm big on clear documentation because it allows for organization of thoughts, the addition of visuals (graphs, charts, wireframes) for clarity of perspective, and the creation of a paper trail for future reference. In my role as a Product Manager, that's typically a 1-pager or PRD draft to summarize the problem statement, add supporting data, and outline risks and/or recommendations. I send this out before we meet so people can react to it and add their ideas/questions/concerns so that once we meet we already have 75% of the discussion done before the meeting.

If I don't have a 1-pager, then at the bare minimum, I always have a few bullet points outlining the questions to answer from the meeting. Never show up at a meeting or brainstorming session without anything prepared beforehand.

The shorter the meetings, the more mental stamina saved.

3. I leverage frameworks and solutions from comparable cases. Don't reinvent the wheel-- find solutions to similar problems, distill them into frameworks, and start from there. It'll cut down on the pre-discussions, discussions, re-discussions, and back and forth if we start 10 miles ahead of the starting line. A lot of time existing solutions aren't perfect fits, but they can be adapted to fix similar problems.

The less redundant work, the more mental stamina saved.

4. I lean on the expertise of the people around me. The one constant in my career is that I avoid working with stupid people. Period. Everywhere I've worked, I've optimized for being around very intelligent people and I've aimed for companies that have extremely high hiring bars. Break the problem into smaller pieces and distribute them to people whose skills are best matched. You shouldn't be in a room brainstorming the solution to all the problems-- only the ones you're best equipped to solve. There's that saying: "many hands make light work." Loop in other experts so it expedites the process.

The lower the intellectual burden, the more mental stamina saved.

5. I follow the impact. Don't just focus on the uninteresting topic/problem, trace its impact to the very end and see with your own eyes the fruits of your labor. I remember back when I was in global strategy being assigned to a process improvement project in Asia. I flew out to Singapore to optimize some processes which was a mind-numbingly boring exercise of designing process flows, launching internal tools, and training agents. However, the impact of the work was that people who were affected by dangerous situations during their international travels were able to be quickly rescued and made financially whole again. Reviewing charts and graphs isn't fun, but I would've lost sight of its importance if I didn't follow the impact.

The higher the personal fulfillment, the more mental stamina saved.

... And sometimes there is no meaningful impact to the work that you're doing, in which case, optimize for speed and efficiency to get it done as quickly and as painlessly as possible (see #1-4 above). If you find yourself repeatedly working on problems you have no interest in or flat out hate-- you need to find another place to work or an entirely different career.

[athenepromachos]

Knickers down and legs open...... the White Wolf cometh 🥵🥵🥵🥵🐺🐺

[pumpkin-boylord]

[the-iron-duck93]

[noritama0301]

はちのこ食堂＠河辺　

スタミナどかもり

[atwas-gaming]

In BOTW, malice causes you to take damage, but does not affect your ability to replenish hearts.

I say this with all seriousness, as someone who has struggled with depression: it affects your ability, your willpower, to think, move, do, and even live.

In TOTK, gloom doesn't just cause damage, it totally destroys your hearts, which are your life force. In other words, it kills Link by taking away his very will to live, or even to survive.

Easy point to miss, possibly even unintentional, but nonetheless thought-provoking.

This also shows that Link's hearts, in any Zelda game, are not a measure of his physical health, but of his increased willpower. Start out with 3: "ah, I'm just a kid, what can I do?" Finish a dungeon, gain a heart: "hey, I did it! I wonder if I can do the next one?" Access a difficult area and gain a heart piece, "wow, that was a lot of work, but I'm better for it!" In BOTW and TOTK, he exchanges the blessings he receives from shrines for both hearts and stamina: "phew, that was time-consuming and difficult, but I feel like I've got a better grasp of what I'm capable of."

I think it's also worth noting that hearts are symbols of happiness as well as health in most societies that use a heart motif. Every time Link finishes a difficult quest or dungeon, he feels better and better about himself and, coincidentally, gains a heart.

At the beginning of BOTW, Link, who has trained his whole life to be Zelda's personal knight, wakes up in the Shrine of Resurrection with no clothes, no weapons, and no memories. He doesn't know who he is, where he is, when he is, or why he is. He has only 3 hearts.

In the prologue of TOTK, Link has a full 20 hearts. This is after he has defeated Calamity Ganon and has been spending, it seems, pretty much every day guarding and assisting the princess. But then he watches her fall, not knowing if she was falling to her death, after being filled with some foul red and black mist that even broke his prized weapon, the Master Sword. He wakes up in the Shrine of Awakening, having lost his own right arm and retained all his memories. He has no idea what has happened to Zelda. He doesn't know at this point whether he has perhaps failed both her and the entire world. And he can still feel that his entire body is filled with that heavy red mist. Despite having trained himself his entire life to not exhibit emotion so that he can be an effective knight, he has only 3 hearts.

I might also add that Zelda isn't the only game in which hearts are used to represent the character's willpower or determination to live.

I didn't intend this to be a PSA or anything, so I'll let you draw any further conclusions that you find on your own. I just wanted to share some things I've been thinking about.